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Show GOMPERS WARNS AGAINST MECHANICAL EXCESSES N I W TORKt Nov. . One of the I proldeni f. icing Ami-rlcnn Industry , Is the checking of the tendency to havo the machine replace the man, Samuel (Tompers, president of tin ; American Federation of LgBOT, -1 -I dared In an address last night be-' be-' fore the American Society of Mechanical Mechani-cal Knglnerra. Th- process alreadv has been carried too far, Mr. Uomp-j Uomp-j era said, for In many places the man I hss become a human connecting link I in the machine and mastered by It. 'Instead of controlling the machine ft' ( self. "The result." he said, "is that today meri' work t-?ui to become mere toll, so it seems to me that the task that lies before us Is to develop u definite kind of working environment which will be attractive and which j will Inspire rather than repulse the I workman. The work Itself must be-I be-I come a central concern. This can-I can-I not be brought about unless the man finds the opportunity for self-expres- slon in the day's work and a chance I to exercise his creative impulses. It Is the deadly monotony of re-' petltlve work that is at the root of I most of our troubles, and I. then fore in the name of the workers, urge upon ou engineers to direct your energies j to the solution of this problem. He ware that the machines you create I do not become a Frankenstein and 'enslave the human nace." |